‘Greater Israel’ Exposed: The Existential Threat to Lebanon & the Levant
Israel and its U.S. backers are advancing a clear project: Greater Israel. That means weakening every state in the Levant, fueling sectarianism, and pressuring Lebanon to disarm — leaving the south of the country defenseless. But disarming resistance in the middle of Israel’s expansion isn’t peace. It’s surrender. So how should the Levant respond? Rania […]
Boat of Veterans Joins Gaza Flotilla, Israel Threatens ‘Terrorism’ Arrests, with Greg Stoker
U.S. military veteran Greg Stoker joins Dispatches from the ship deck of the Global Sumud Flotilla, comprised of dozens of boats that just launched from Barcelona with the goal of breaking Israel’s starvation siege on Gaza. Stoker, who served in the U.S. Army, explains why he chose to risk his life by joining the flotilla, […]
Israel Killed Shireen. The U.S. Covered It Up. Now Journalists Are Being Hunted.
Israel murdered Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022, then lied about it. The Biden administration helped them cover it up. Now, Israel is targeting even more journalists — with impunity. Rania Khalek is joined by Dion Nissenbaum, executive producer of the new documentary “Who Killed Shireen?” and Lina Abu Akleh, human rights advocate and […]
NATO Lost in Ukraine and the West Is In Denial, with Vijay Prashad
Trump met with Putin. Hillary Clinton praised his “better understanding” of Ukraine. Europe bowed its head and posed for a photo. And Ukraine? Still collapsing — politically and militarily. After terrible human suffering, the war is lost, arms control is dead, and sanctions have failed. Meanwhile, BRICS can’t stop U.S. rampaging in the Middle East, […]
Israel’s Propaganda Machine Collapses Under Its Own Lies with Muhammad Shehada
Muhammad Shehada, Palestinian writer and analyst, joins the show to discuss Israel’s “giant machinery” of propaganda attempting “to brainwash, to overwhelm people, to push them away from trying to understand what’s happening” in Gaza. Despite the enormous price tag of its disinformation machine, Israel itself is now admitting in Hebrew media that “our propaganda is […]
Trump’s Hostile Takeover: D.C. Is a ‘Test Run’ for Martial Law
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, a constitutional rights attorney and Co-Founder of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, joins the show to discuss Trump’s unlawful federal takeover of D.C., declaring a “crime emergency” despite a 30-year decline in violent crimes. Verheyden-Hilliard explains how this manufactured crisis is a prototype for martial law that he has threatened to take […]
Trump-Putin Summit: Will Ukraine Proxy War Finally End? With Glenn Diesen
Glenn Diesen, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway and author of The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order, discusses the upcoming Trump-Putin talks on Ukraine in Alaska – a meeting Ukrainian President Zelensky was not invited to. Trump recently acknowledged NATO’s role in starting the proxy war, and Diesen says this “reflects the […]
Rania Khalek: ‘US Is Trying to Instigate Civil War in Lebanon’
The Lebanese government has approved a US-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, a move Rania Khalek says is plunging the country into political crisis. “Since last year’s ceasefire, Israel has violated it over 4,000 times, bombing Lebanon, assassinating people, flying constant drones,” she says, noting that the Lebanese army “does not fight Israel” and is now […]